Big Brother 2014: The first 10 housemates revealed and it’s going to be a very interesting year

Matthew Davies was the first housemate to be punished in Big Brother 2014’s Power Trip (Picture: C5)

After a great show last year Channel 5 will be keen to replicate the success with Big Brother 2014, and of course what makes for a good Big Brother is the calibre of the housemates.

So will it be a vintage year? Judging by the first ten housemates to have entered the futuristic, new house it looks like it’s going to be interesting…

The theme this year is Power Trip as Big Brother will be encouraging the housemates to seize power for themselves, giving it to the viewers and will probably exerting quite a bit of it too.

First twist of the series started tonight as the viewing public voted for one new entrant to take control of the house – nightmare, no one wants to stick out like that on the first day – and they chose the oldest, 49 year old Pauline Bennett, to pick up the key to the control room and reward one housemate and punish another.

Pauline Bennett was chosen by viewers to be the Power Housemate (Picture: C5)

She chose Mariah Carey fan Mark to be rewarded with £5,000 and ‘intolerant’ Matthew was punished with exclusion in a perspex box raised high above the garden.

A fun little stunt to finish the show that showed how things are going to pan out for the rest of the series.

The live opening show, filmed in front of a baying crowd, gave us our first look at ten of the unusual people prepared to put themselves through it (with six more entering in show two) – and as usual for the opening night there was plenty of long tonged hair, overly confident personal statements and air kissing:

Strident Tamara, 24, says she is ‘hungry for control’ and has already got a few backs up by saying she hates women who choose to be housewives.

Saying she is ‘better than everybody else’ she is set to be pitted against glamour models and the unemployed who she also ‘hates’. Of course no one likes a mouthy reality TV star and so she was booed hard.

Mark Byron

Mark Byron says he sulks if he doesn’t win (Picture: C5)

The crowd went wild for the popular Mark, who believes that the world would be a better place if everyone was a bit more like Mariah Carey.

He confesses he has a ‘bit of a gob’ on him, especially when drunk which should be good fun it it’s true. There’ll be no way he can get his beard shaped or his HD brows done while in the house so might struggle to keep up his perfectly groomed appearance.

Helen Wood

Helen Wood arrived to cheers (Picture: C5)

No stranger to the limelight, Helen was at the centre of a celebrity sex scandal a few years back but is keen to put that behind her (despite talking about it a lot in her intro!)

Saying that she ‘hates bullies’ admits she ‘can be nasty’ if she needs to be and ‘hates girls who act thick when they’re not’.

Steven Goode

Steven Goode wants to be Prime Minister one day (Picture: C5)

Self confessed ‘extremely successful’ millionaire Steven is a believer in trying to be more successful than everybody else and has a long term ambition to be Prime Minister of the UK.

Young Steven says he’s done everything, had everything, meaning that Big Brother is obviously next on his hit list to conquer.

Already obsessed with power he says he will only ‘take orders from Big Brother’. Yeah, he’ll be popular right?

Winston Showan isnt bothered if a girl is a nine or a 10 (Picture: C5)

Handsome Essex lad Winston looks like he missed out on a place on TOWIE, full of tales of ‘birds’ and ‘boobs’ and running naked through Ibiza he was cheered by the crowd who obviously liked his cheeky persona.

He says he ‘spends all his cash chasing the ladies’ but is a ‘secret romantic at heart’. Guaranteed to get off with somebody.

Matthew Davies

Matthew Davies was shocked speechless when he entered the house (Picture: C5)

Already a popular housemate with the crowd (who she did a little dance for) she’ll celebrate her 50th birthday in the house. She wants to be the ‘old prankster’ but I bet she ends up as the mum of the house.

She’s already on a Power Trip and in control of the housemates movements.

Six more housemates go in on night two, and Pauline gets to exercise her power once more to change the house for good with something presenter Emma says they ‘have never done before’ on the show… Exciting!

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